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بخش ۳۲ - اما السّیاریّة / Section 32 - As for the Sayyariyya

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تولا سیاریان به ابی العباس سیاری کنند، رضی الله عنه و وی امام مرو بود اندر همه علوم، و صاحب ابوبکر واسطی بود و امروز اندر نسا و مرو از اصحاب وی طبقه ای بسیارند و هیچ مذهب اندر تصوف بر حال خود نمانده است الا مذهب وی؛ که به هیچ وقت مرو یا نسا از مقتدایی خالی نبوده است که اصحاب وی را بر اقامت مذهب وی رعایت می کرده است تا الی یومنا هذا. و مر اهل نسا را از اصحاب وی با اهل مرو رسایل لطیف است و سخن ایشان میان یک دیگر به نامه بوده است و من بعضی از آن نامه ها بدیدم به مرو، سخت خوش است و عبارات ایشان را بنا بر جمع و تفرقه باشد و این لفظی است مشترک میان جملهٔ اهل علوم، و هر گروه اندر صنعت خود مر این لفظ را کار بندند مر تفهیم عبارات خود را، اما مراد هر یک از آن چیزی دیگر است؛ چنان که حسابیان به جمع و تفرقه مراد اجتماع و افتراق اعداد چیزی خواهند و نحویان اتفاق اسامی لغوی و افتراق معانی آن، و فقها جمع قیاس و تفرقه نص و یا بر عکس این و اصولیان جمع صفات ذات و تفرقه صفات فعل؛ اما مراد این طایفه بدین، نه این جمله بود که یاد کردیم.کنون من مقصود این طایفه بدین عبارات و اختلاف مشایخ بیارم تا تو را حقیقت این معلوم گردد، ان شاء الله تعالی.

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The Sayyaris give their allegiance to Abu'l-Abbas al-Sayyari, may Allah be pleased with him. He was the imam of Merv in all the sciences, and was a companion of Abu Bakr al-Wasiti. Today in Nasa and Merv there are many ranks of his followers, and no school (madhhab) in Sufism has remained in its original state except his school; for at no time have Merv or Nasa been devoid of a leader (muqtada) who has looked after his followers in maintaining his school, up to this day of ours.

The people of Nasa among his followers have subtle letters (rasa'il) with the people of Merv, and their discourse with one another has been conducted by way of letters. I myself saw some of those letters in Merv; they are exceedingly fine. Their expressions are based on 'union' (jam') and 'separation' (tafriqa). This is a term shared among all the people of the sciences, and each group employs this term in its own craft to convey its own expressions, but the intent of each of them is something different. Thus the arithmeticians mean by 'union' and 'separation' the aggregation and separation of numbers; the grammarians mean the agreement of nouns in their lexical form and the difference of their meanings; the jurists mean the union of analogy (qiyas) and the separation of the explicit text (nass), or the reverse of this; and the legal theorists (usulis) mean the union of the essential attributes and the separation of the attributes of action. But the intent of this group (the Sufis) by this is not any of the things which we have mentioned.

Now I shall set forth the intent of this group by these expressions, and the disagreement of the shaykhs, so that the truth of this may become known to you, God Most High willing.

Updated 2026-07-20

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